A nineteenth century phrenologist would most likely be found
A) using psychoanalytic techniques to investigate a client's personality characteristics.
B) describing a client's psychological traits based on the physical attributes on a client's skull.
C) conducting neural surgery to help patients with physical brain trauma.
D) mapping brain regions using patients with brain trauma.

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Phrenology was a pseudoscience popular in the nineteenth century that claimed to be able to determine a person's psychological traits by examining the bumps and indentations on their skull. Phrenologists believed that different areas of the brain were responsible for different personality characteristics, and by feeling the shape of a person's skull, they could determine the size and strength of these different brain regions.

A Nineteenth Century Phrenologist Would Most Likely Be Found